Equitable Subrogation

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• Conn. Gen. Life Ins. Co. v. Dredge
  746 F.2d 1420· 10th Cir.· 1984-10-25
  The court reversed the deputy commissioner's denial of additional attorney's fees, holding that claimants' counsel was entitled to such fees for proving the employer/carrier acted negligently, thereby relieving claimants of their portion of the original attorney's fees.
• The Lincoln Sav. Bank v. Hayes
  671 F.2d 198· 6th Cir.· 1982-02-17
  A mortgagee cannot recover from a nonassuming grantee the amount of delinquent property taxes paid from foreclosure sale proceeds, because the mortgagee failed to actively protect its interest by paying the taxes itself.
• Pettry v. Pruitt
  409 So. 2d 1115· Fla. 1st DCA· 1982-02-04
  The Pettrys appealed a judgment denying their claims for equitable subrogation, constructive trust, and accounting regarding insurance settlement proceeds received by the Pruitts and First National Bank following a fire loss. The court affirmed, holding that the one-year time lim
• Price v. Scharps
  405 So. 2d 1043· Fla. 3d DCA· 1981-11-10
  Price paid a stud fee owed by Scharps to Farnsworth Farms and sued to recover the $5,000 from Scharps. The court reversed the dismissal of Price's complaint, holding that Price was entitled to equitable subrogation because he paid an obligation primarily owed by Scharps and was n
• Dist. OF Columbia Redev. Land Agency v. Eleven Parcels OF Land IN Squares 2662
  589 F.2d 628· D.C. Cir.· 1978-11-09
  The District Court properly granted reimbursement to RLA for a demolition assessment, as the assessment creates a tax lien with priority over a private deed of trust, and RLA is subrogated to the District's priority.
• United States v. Hughes
  499 F.2d 322· 8th Cir.· 1974-06-28
  The court held that purchasers who paid off a first mortgage were not entitled to equitable subrogation because they were chargeable with inexcusable neglect in failing to account for a known junior SBA mortgage.
• Kirkpatrick v. Work
  134 Fla. 245· Fla.· 1938-10-13
  In this foreclosure case, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's holding that two mortgages on a homestead were discharged by payments made by the mortgagor from his own funds, despite his mother-in-law's claim that she had delivered money to him for investment in t
• Solomon Cohen v. L'Engle
  29 Fla. 655· Fla.· 1892-01-01
  Cohen appealed a judgment in assumpsit for five promissory notes endorsed to the bank. The Florida Supreme Court reversed because the trial court erred in refusing to allow the defendant to show that payments made by the assignee of the maker's estate should have been credited pr